2020
Poetry by Clare L. Martin
A glimpse into the world of horses
https://64parishes.org/poetry-by-clare-l-martin
2018
2017
“Harvest” and “Seduction” Nixes Mate Review
Three poems translated into Italian by Alessandra Bava
Monday Must Read: Clare L. Martin
Degrees of Separation: Clare L. Martin
Degrees of Separation is a two year Louisiane-Bretagne exchange from October 2014 – October 2016 for 4 visual and 4 literary artists from the Bretagne region of France with 4 literary and 4 visual artists from Louisiana.
Susan Tepper Interviews Clare for UNCOV/rd at Flash Fiction Chronicles
Gloom Cupboard review The Chiaro and the Scuro: Clare L. Martin’s “Eating the Heart First”
Lessons from “Eating the Heart First,” by Clare L. Martin: A review by Stacia M. Fleegal for Blood Lotus: A Journal of Online Literature
Eat Your Heart Out (Interview with Clare by The Independent)
5 Questions, 3 Facts (Interview with Clare by Press 53)
(Videos of Clare reading at the bottom of the page)
Creative Writing Publications
(Some of these poems can be read in the online literary journals that first published them with a little help from your search engine of choice. Thank you!)
2014
“Seek the Holy Dark” the blue collection 5: collaboration (Winter 2014 / 14.24)
“Black Coffee” and “All This Remembering” Unlikely Stories
2013
“4 Signs Your Heart is Quietly Failing “Technoculture (text and audio)
2012
Eating the Heart First, debut full-length collection, (2012, Press 53) Tom Lombardo Selection.
“Of the Gone Woman” Unlikely Stories
“Because We Love” Unlikely Stories
“Dream of Sudden Water” Unlikely Stories
“What Winter Told Me” THRUSH, January 2012
“The Oak Remembered from My Childhood” Referential Magazine
“Any Winter Sunday in Louisiana” Referential Magazine
“Seeing Through” blue five notebook
“Ink on a Mirror” Louisiana Literature, 29/1
“Convergence” Louisiana Literature, 29/1
“Distortion” Unlikely Stories
“The Word Does Not Come” Unlikely Stories
“Poem to the Madonna” Unlikely Stories
“The Disease is at Home in Her” Melusine, Spring/Summer
“The Embalmer’s Wife” Melusine, Spring/Summer
2011
“Note to Self” The Centrifugal Eye, April 2011
“Haunted” Referential Magazine, Spring 2011
“Lost” Redheaded Stepchild, Spring 2011
“The Bird in My Ribcage” Redheaded Stepchild, Spring 2011
“How it Comes” A Clean, Well-Lighted Place Vol. 1, Issue 1
“Meditation on Intimations of Winter II” A Clean, Well-Lighted Place Vol. 1, Issue 1
“Poem at Red Moon (Full August Moon)” Unlikely Stories, September 2011
“Secrets Alluded to But Never Told” Unlikely Stories, September 2011
Press 53’s 2011 Spotlight anthology
“Eating the Heart First” first appeared in Eclectica Magazine
“Poem Composed After Reading Plath’s Ariel at a Junkyard”
“4-Way Stop at Dusk” first appeared in Farmhouse Magazine
“Tattoo” “first appeared in Press 1
“Life Expectancy” first appeared in Blood Lotus
“I Have Learned To Hold My Tongue”
“To His Disquiet We Owe Recompense” first appeared in the Dead Mule
“Punishment”
“Starving Horses” first appeared in the Dead Mule
“The Gift” first appeared in the Dead Mule
2010
“White Bull, Black Road,” Scythe, Vol. II, 2010
“The Woman You Married,” Scythe, Vol. II, 2010
“Little Poem at Pink Moon” Scythe, Vol. II, 2010
“Memento Mori” THE RED ROOM: Writings from Press 1, anthology, 2010
“Mute” Blue Fifth Review, the blue collection 1, anthology series, 2010
“Winter Brought Out All the Knives” Melusine 2.2 Spring/Summer 2010
“Birthing” Avatar Review, Issue 12, Summer 2010
“Make a New Garden” Avatar Review, Issue 12, Summer 2010
“The Never That Was” Avatar Review, Issue 12, Summer 2010
“Father Almost Drowning” Poets and Artists (O&S) Vol. 3, Issue 7, August 2010
“Open Me with a Fire of Words” Wild Goose Poetry Review, August 2010
“The White Crane” Featured Nonfiction, Referential Magazine, September 2010
“Premature” Literary Mama, “Desiring Motherhood” series October 2010
2009
“What is Required in the Forever” Clean Sheets, May 2009
“Tattoo” Press 1, May 2009
“Memento Mori” Press1, May 2009
“To His Disquiet We Owe Recompense” The Dead Mule, July 2009
“Hegira”The Dead Mule, July 2009
“Bone Woman” The Dead Mule, July 2009
“Winter” Glass: A Journal of Poetry, August 2009
2008
“Catharsis” Eclectica Magazine Winter 2008
“Eating the Heart First” Eclectica Magazine Winter 2008
“The Frozen Child” Eclectica Magazine Winter 2008
“Cutting” The Dead Mule, April 2008
“Ice to Water” The Dead Mule, April 2008
“Rain” The Dead Mule, April 2008
“Remembering” The Dead Mule, April 2008
“Starving Horses” The Dead Mule, April 2008
“The Gift” The Dead Mule, April 2008
“Second Cup Of Coffee During a Rainstorm” The Dead Mule, April 2008
“4-Way Stop at Dusk” Best of Farmhouse Magazine, anthology, Fall 2008
2007
“Garbage Woman” Blue Fifth Review, Summer 2007 Issue
“Bread Making” Blue Fifth Review, Summer 2007 Issue
“Last night I dreamt the moon was burning” Wheelhouse, Vol. 4, Fall 2007
“Insomnia II” Inch, Winter Issue #6, 2007
2006
“1st” Southern Hum, Issue 3, March 2006
“Girl Running with Horses” Southern Hum, Issue 3, March 2006
“Scattering Ashes into the Gulf of Mexico” Southern Hum, Issue 3, March 2006
“Mowing Grass with Dylan’s…” Southern Hum, Volume 1, Issue 3, March 2006
“4-Way Stop at Dusk” Farmhouse Magazine, May/June 2006 Issue
“Life Expectancy” Blood Lotus Vol. 1, Issue 3 August 2006
“She walks into the sea” Lily Lit Review, Vol. 3, Issue 11, October 2006
2005
“Love in a predawn thunderstorm” Clean Sheets,2005
“After the Flood” Beyond Katrina, anthology, 2005
2004
“Careless” Clean Sheets, 2004
1989-1990
“The Nightmare” The Southwestern Review, Spring 1989
“Raven” The Southwestern Review, Spring 1989
“Photograph” The Southwestern Review, Spring 1990
“A Child’s Dream” The Southwestern Review, Spring 1990
MEDIA
“Eating the Heart First” read by Nic Sebastian for Whale Sound
“You carry your weight well.” Clare
Video
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